CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Baranyi, Béla
Head of Department, senior research fellow
Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Centre for Regional Studies, Alföld Institute
Debrecen Department
H-4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138.
Phone/fax: (+36 52) 508-327
E-mail: baranyib@rkk.hu
1. Personal data
Date of birth: 19 July 1946.
Place of birth: Furta (Hungary)
Nationality: Hungarian
Marital status: married
Spouse: Kovács, Edit, secondary grammar school teacher
Children: Edit (1975), Márta (1978)
Permanent address: H–4024 Debrecen, Zöldfa u. 15. Phone: (36–52) 311-542
(As a reminder: Debrecen is Hungary’s second largest town, with a population over 200.000. This 650-year-old town with a great historical heritage is a regional centre and school town, the educational, higher education and scientific centre of Eastern Hungary.)
2. Education
Degree: Kossuth Lajos University (1970), majors: Hungarian studies and history, historian.
University doctor, 1972. Kossuth Lajos University, Faculty of Humanities. Title of doctoral thesis: Thoughts about the power elite, and about a local elite in connection with the virilism in Debrecen (1870-1930)
Ph.D. of historical sciences, 1980. Title of thesis: The processes and historical correlations of the social restructuring in the Trans-Tisza region (the region east of the river Tisza) after 1945.
3. Workplace and position
Previous occupations: university lecturer, researcher, teacher.
Present workplace: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Regional Studies, “Alföld” Institute, Debrecen Department.
Address: H – 4032 Debrecen, Böszörményi u. 138.
Postal address: H–4015 Debrecen, P. O. Box: 15.
Phone/fax: (36–52) 508-327, Mobile phone: (36–20) 328-8822
E-mail: baranyib@rkk.hu
Scientific position: senior research fellow
Present position at the workplace: Head of Department
4. Fields of research
Historical, economic and social historical research of Hungary in the new era and the recent times; local and regional history
Research of the regional and settlement development issues in Hungary; elaboration of regional and settlement development documents (concepts and programmes)
Research of environmental protection in East-Hungary along the two sides of the Hungarian–Romanian and Hungarian–Ukrainian state borders
Social historical and sociological analysis of the present social structure and social layers
Survey of the border situation and cross-border socio-economic connections in the Hungarian–Romanian and Hungarian–Ukrainian border regions of Northeast Hungary and in the Carpathian Euro-region
„Eastern gateways” – enterprise zones in the Hungarian–Ukrainian and Hungarian–Romanian border regions (the Záhony and the Bihar Enterprise Zones). Micro-regional, settlement historical and settlement geographical surveys in East Hungary
Euroregional Organisations and New Interregional Formations on the Eastern Borders of Hungary
5. Teaching activity
Kossuth Lajos University, Department of Hungarian History in the New Era and Recent Times, 1970-1988, as a full time university lecturer (then after 1981), as a part-time lecturer, seminars and special courses on the history of Hungary in the 19th and 20th century. Presently lectures presented for PhD scholars and students majoring in regional and rural development and settlement geography at the Centre for Agricultural Sciences and College of Technical Sciences, University of Debrecen, further lecturer at Faculty of Csíkszereda, Sapientia University (Rumania). Consultant in the training of university and college students.
6. Membership in scientific organisations
Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge, 1972 –
Society of Hungarian Historians, 1972 –
Debrecen Academic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA DAB), Special Committee No. 2. of Social Sciences, 1980 –
MTA DAB, member (in 1980-1990 secretary) of the Working Committee of Historical Sciences
MTA DAB, Working Committee of Regional and Urban Studies, 1993 –
7. Language skills
German, Russian (write, read, speak), English (read)
8. Longer study tours abroad
1969-70: Soviet Union (present Russia), University of Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 6 months
1977: Batumi (Georgia), 2 weeks
1977-78: East Berlin, Institute of Economic History (Institut für Wirtschaftgeschichte) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, 3 months
1978-1985: in Lublin and Warsaw (Poland), 7 times (of 1-2 week duration).
Number of lectures presented during the study tours abroad: 10.
9. Publications
The total number of publications is over 180. (Of which: 16 individual and edited works, 114 essays in journals, books and technical articles, 50 other publications, articles for the dissemination of knowledge, reviews etc.). Number of essays published in foreign languages: 10. Number of final reports of researches: 5. Number of participations and presentations at conferences: 55.
Main work: The Changing Society of the Trans-Tisza Region (1945-1978). The main processes and historical correlations of the social restructuring in the Trans-Tisza Region. Akadémiai Kiadó, Bp. 1985. 200 p.